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Orchard CMS with Azure Cache on Windows Azure websites (WAWS)

If your current OrchardCMS site is running on multiple instances on Windows Azure Websites, then without using some form of distributed cache, caches will become out of sync between the different nodes in your farm.

Not all websites need a caching mechanism, but if you are looking to improve performance and the scalability of your application then Windows Azure Cache (Preview) would help. It can make your Azure website become more responsive even as user load increases. This separate distributed cache layer allows your data tier to scale independently for more efficient use of compute resources in your application layer.

Caching is meant to store data temporarily, which might mean hours, days or weeks. Some of the features of Windows Azure Cache Service(Preview) are:

Pre-built ASP.NET providers for session state and page output caching

Caches any serializable managed object like XML, binary data to name a few